Luftwaffe P51 shot down by US P47 ?

[George Hopp]

Sorry, but the entire incident sounds unbelievable. German P-51s tended to be brightly marked, and carried very large Balkan crosses, so they wouldn't be shot down by German fighters. And, they stayed well away from any combat because they didn't carry ammunition, and didn't want to lose a valuable a/c.

This all sounds much like all those B-17s that tried to tuck into the formations of other B-17s and then supposedly fired on them. It turned out to be US B-17s that had lost the other planes in their element, looking for friendly protection. If you look at some of the German gun camera footage, you'll see that the the fighters just barrel in and fire, and it's almost impossible to see national markings. In other words, a German crew in a B-17 would be just as likely to be shot down as an American one. The same goes for that "Luftwaffe P51" that you heard about.